Assessment of Kidney Function in Patients With Extreme Obesity: A Narrative Review.

Published in: The Annals of pharmacotherapy (2020)

In patients with extreme obesity and stable kidney function, eClCr or eGFR using deindexed values provides estimates of function for dosing adjustments of medications with elimination by the kidneys, but more research is needed with respect to the best size descriptor to use with estimating equations.

Keyphrases

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physical activity